When horse-trading with old male pols, they give as good as they get.
She beat two old professional pols.
Candidates once needed the approval of wise old cigar-smoking pols who knew them.
But books in this overworked genre, like Washington's old pols, are better at giving the illusion of revelation than delivering any new insights.
She and her husband are now the old tired establishmeent pols and carry more baggae with them than a whole airliner's passengers.
Certainly after the death of Stalin I was skeptical how many of these old pols really cared about Communism.
Presidential candidates used to emerge from the smoke-filled room, chosen by shrewd old pols.
Toward the front he noted some old pols from Toronto and a couple of Conservative federal MPs, and the former prime minister.
Every so often, the old pols on Capitol Hill demonstrate anew the manipulative skills that got them into positions of power in the first place.
But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running.